"Designers, designers, designers" has become the new "developers, developers, developers." Witness the ever-growing list of job postings for product designers, UI designers, user research designers, UX designers. They're posted faster than I can read...

As a consultant, I'm always interested in new ways to win interesting engagements. By interesting, I mean the opportunity to do research based design, measure the ROI and perhaps even have a publishable case study. UX designers are consistently plagu...

The Truth About HTML5 For Web Designersis an ebook self-published by Australian developer Luke Stevens. I disagree with some of Stevens' conclusions, particularly in his discusssion of the new semantics, but it's solidly researched and lots of fun if...

Parallax scrolling effect is one of the hottest techniques many of us have seen around the web. All credit must give to Nike's Nike Better World campaign. It stirred such a hugh ripple in web design and development and everyone was talking about it a...

Despite all the stories you've heard, the hardest part of working from home isn't putting on pants every day. I've been working from home, a few different homes, since late 2007. And the biggest thing I've learned during those four years is that work...

THIRD WORLD TRAVELER is an archive of articles and book excerpts that seek to tell the truth about the state of American democracy, media, and foreign policy, and about the impact of the actions of the United States government, transnational corporat...

More and more, Google has been showing pictures of article authors next to search results. But what began ostensibly as simple adoption of industry standard Web markup seems to have become an exercise in promoting the Google+ social network. In June ...

Twitter's much-anticipated redesign launched last week. With a redesigned site, enhanced profile pages for brands, and the ability to embed tweets, the recent changes to the social networking site are major. Here's a look at Twitter's major changes.

Responsive web design term is related to the concept of developing a website design in a manner, that helps the lay out to get changed according to the user's computer screen resolution. More precisely, the concept allows for an advanced 4 column lay...

I've written often about the benefits of going viral in both content and marketing strategies. Increasingly, however, social media content (a.k.a. viral content) does more than increase brand recognition and site traffic: it can also boost your SEO s...

Now that the holidays are upon us, we all probably could use some cheering up. So I thought I'd have some fun with our favorite search engines: Google, Yahoo, Bing, YouTube, and Blekko. At Nine By Blue, I have been developing software that automatica...

The largest collection of interior design and decorating ideas on the Internet, including kitchens and bathrooms. Over 250,000 inspiring photos and 90,000 idea books from top designers around the world. Remodeling and decorating ideas and inspiration...

It isn't all about rankings and traffic anymore. Visitor retention and conversion optimization are becoming the new focal points in the SEO world. It is time to quit thinking about a number and start thinking about an experience.

Brands shouldn't rush to create pages or advertise on every social network, even if the audience seems like a perfect fit. To take full advantage of focused social networks, it pays to create specific engagement programs for each community.

You might not think that DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) would be very concerned about writing copy. But in fact, DARPA is investing in one particular kind of wordsmithing: stories.